Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 4/8] Add shims to return views on Python dicts.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Martin Panter <vadmium+patch@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10 October 2013 00:35, Jeremy Heiner <scalaprotractor@gmail.com> wrote: Perhaps it might be simpler to just use Python 3’s items() etc methods directly. That tends to also work with Python < 3 in most cases. I admit I’ve never used Pacman’s test suite so perhaps the extra expense would be significant under Python 2?

Hi, Martin. That is a great question. My "run all tests under 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7" script takes 85 seconds either way. So it seems that avoiding the copying gives no real boost. Jeremy